Path to Heaven

From his investigations, that nine floor building was where the Jin Clan’s Fifth Uncle went into closed door training; in preparation for breaking through to Thought Division Stage level 2.

What caused him to be speechless was Yan Heng’s description of Jin Qiao’er, the granddaughter of the Jin Clan’s Seventh Aunt. She was unexpectedly a scrawny little girl with a awkwardly pointy nose, where her appearance was tremendously hideous. Such was the vast disparity between her and the woman he saw in the morning.

Nevertheless, he could see how treacherous the current headmaster of the Jin Clan, Jin Lieyang, was. He had purposely arranged for a fake Jin Qiao’er and deliberately left certain misgivings, before following up with a secret message disguised as the truth, which was delivered by a supposedly loyal maid of Jin Qiao’er.

If not for Wei Suo’s distrusting personality, he would’ve gone to Tealstare Cliff and get caught in their ploy.

It was a pity Wei Suo himself was a veteran of tricks. After carefully pondering, he felt that maid appeared unflustered enough, and thus, Wei Suo decided to set up his own plot of luring the tigers away from their domains.

However, looking at how scheming Jin Lieyang and company was, his plot wouldn’t be able to deceive them for long either.

Without any time to waste, Wei Suo hurriedly put on his Concealment robe and crept towards a pavilion in the center of the Jin Villa.

This pavilion was named Aqua Charm Pavilion. It wasn’t constructed with distinctive features but was situated in the midst of the largest artificial lake of Jin Villa. It was surrounded by water where only one side revealed a ‘Ninesongs’ Stone Bridge that extended to the pavilion.

Putting it bluntly, this pavilion resembled a tiny island of this lake.

A month ago, the genuine Jin Qiao’er had been brought to this pavilion with the pretext that the Aqua Charm Pavilion boasted of beautiful scenery, and nourishing water energies that was good for her weakly body. Yet the truth was that she had been locked up ever since.

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Moments later, Wei Suo was stealthily standing on the opposite bank of the Ninesongs Bridge.

Two disciples were currently carrying lanterns as they patrolled Jin Villa, and had just strolled past the area not 6 metres away from Wei Suo. In spite of that, they failed to discover Wei Suo.

After waiting for the two disciples to distance themselves, Wei Suo swept through with his divine sense and discovered a Heavenly Circuit Stage level 1 cultivator, at the right-most room of the courtyard.

Immediately, according to Yan Heng, Wei Suo knew this Heavenly Circuit Stage cultivator was Yan Heng’s senior. The one specially tasked to look over Jin Qiao’er, Zhang Wuya.

Initially, Wei Suo wanted to use his Concealment Art and Concealment robe to sneakily infiltrate the Aqua Charm Pavilion, and refrain from unnecessarily startling anyone.

However, after some quiet considerations, Wei Suo crept, step by step with excruciating slowness, towards the room that housed Zhang Wuya.

Then, with a simple flick of his finger, he flicked out a stone he had prepared in his arm.

Pu tong! This extremely tiny stone streaked out a lonely arc in mid-air and landed into the waters by the Ninesongs Bridge, thereby releasing a soft splash.

Consecutively, with a slight creak, the shut door of that room was pushed open. Out came a short but skinny yellow robed cultivator. He looked to be in his forties and grew several strands of mouse whiskers on his face.

Yet in the same instant when that cultivator was vigilantly rushing over, a sweeping sound echoed from the place where his eyes were fixated on. Then, a transparent ripple struck his head.

This short and tiny Zhang Wuya didn’t faint but instead clutched his head, before widening his mouth and releasing a miserable cry.

Wei Suo wasn’t even 15 metres away from him. When Zhang Wuya opened his mouth, Wei Suo swept his hand forth with true energy, churning up a gale that smacked his mouth. It was like swallowing an invisible egg as his voice was forcibly choked within his throat.

Wei Suo further unleashed his true energy and released several black rays. Indeed, those were the venomous stings of the Scorpion Tail Wasp that could paralyze a cultivator.

Back in Guhuai Manor, he managed to acquire a number of Scorpion Tail Wasps. Right now, several of those stings were sent stabbing into Zhang Wuya’s mouth.

As compared to Yan Heng, Zhang Wuya was much more unfortunate. Wei Suo reckoned that even after a day and night, the swelling in his mouth and throat would still persist for several days.

Following that, Wei Suo directly waved his true energy smacking against Zhang Wuya’s forehead.

Still unaware of what was going on, this Heavenly Circuit Stage level 1 cultivator bluntly passed out.

Following that, Wei Suo discourteously searched his body and plundered all his belongings into his own pockets. Then, he ‘escorted’ Zhang Wuya back to his room and positioned him in a meditative state.

After rummaging through the room as well, Wei Suo then left and closed the door behind him before slowly creeping along Ninesongs Bridge.

The reason he chose to deal with Zhang Wuya, was because if he ever got exposed, an additional Heavenly Circuit Stage level 1 cultivator could still pose a threat to him. Now that he had a chance to restrain one, he chose to do it before proceeding.

Furthermore, a Heavenly Circuit Stage cultivator could offer him some treasures as well. Since he had already infiltrated Jin Villa, Wei Suo naturally wouldn’t be polite about their belongings. Even Yan Heng’s possessions had been wiped out cleanly by Wei Suo.

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The Aqua Charm Pavilion was utterly still without a single ray of light.

“Careful, a forbidden control!”

With his current Heavenly Circuit Stage level 4 cultivation, the range of Wei Suo’s divine sense already exceeded the green gowned Old Man. Hence, the Old Man had kept silent all this while. Yet when Wei Suo had retrieved a tiny dagger to barge through the pavilion door, the Old Man abruptly sounded out.

Wei Suo’s brows creased as he widened his eye for a closer look. There wasn’t a single glimmer illuminating from the pavilion’s interior, but after sweeping twice through with his divine sense again, he really discovered several weak spirit energy ripples exuding from the entrance and the main pavilion hall inside.

After detouring in the pavilion’s backyard, Wei Suo scanned with his divine sense and realized that the second floor windows and rooms were also installed with forbidden controls. However, the roof was free of such spirit energy fluctuations.

After a brief pause, Wei Suo directly soared to the rooftop and slowly cut open a hole in the roof. Then, he gracefully descended into the room below.

This wasn’t a room. There was a bed covered with a violet screening veil, where a petite figure seemed to be bundled inside.

Having swept through with his divine sense previously, Wei Suo had deciphered that there was a total of three individuals inside this Aqua Charm Pavilion; two of which were ordinary servants while only one was a cultivator.

After scanning with his Aura Determining Technique, Wei Suo realized that this petite figure bundled by a blanket didn’t possess a low cultivation, but was unexpectedly a Heavenly Circuit Stage level 5 cultivator.

However, the figure donned a sickly and weak impression. If Wei Suo wasn’t wrong, this individual should be Jin Qiao’er whom he was seeking.

Seeing that Jin Qiao’er seemed to be sleeping soundly in this lightless dark room, Wei Suo removed his Concealment robe and inched forward. He wanted to wake her up while preventing her from making any excessive reactions.

Yet in this instant, the soundly sleeping Jin Qiao’er suddenly jolted up and spoke with an exceedingly icy voice.

“Did that old dog, Jin Shenxuan, send you to assassinate me?!”

Watching this soundly sleeping female abruptly jolting up and berating him, Wei Suo instantly broke out in cold sweat.

Nevertheless, after observing that Jin Qiao’er remained still and didn’t look like she was about to shout out, Wei Suo resisted his urge to release his divine sense attack. Instead, he quickly refuted.

“You must be Jin Qiao’er eh, Granny Jin entrusted me to find you.”

“My grandmother?” Jin Qiao’er became slightly stumped but followed up with a sneer.

“Where’s the proof of that?”

Wei Suo didn’t reply immediately but chose to survey her first.

Upon this quick survey, Wei Suo couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

This Jin Qiao’er truly possessed an extremely pointy nose and yellowish complexion. Her eyes were weighed down by blackened eye bags, and was truly ugly to behold in accordance to Yan Heng’s description. Looking at her with his own eyes, he felt her ugliness could imbue sorrow into one’s heart.

That ‘Jin Qiao’er’ from the morning had such a touching appearance, yet this current ‘Jin Qiao’er’ was so ugly she could cause one to lament. The disparity between them was truly an insurmountable chasm.

After rolling his eyes, Wei Suo straightforwardly spat out two words, “Mei Lin.”

This lamentably ugly Jin Qiao’er’s brows instantly hopped upon hearing those two words. A cold snort was issued from her pointy nose as she spared no rubbish in her words. “Seems like my granny has indeed sent you. You are pretty capable to actually reach here. Shoot it, what important reason did my granny send you here for?”

“This woman really lacks manners.” Seeing Jin Qiao’er purely treating him like a messenger, Wei Suo smiled bitterly in his heart and replied, “Granny Jin entrusted me to pass this Scarletwing Flame Devil’s demonic dan-pellet to you.”

“Scarletwing Flame Devil’s demonic dan-pellet! It’s on you?” Hearing that, Jin Qiao’er became visibly moved but she immediately recalled something and coldly asked. “My granny, why didn’t she bring it back herself?”

Wei Suo looked into her eyes emotionlessly and continued. “She met with an accident while harvesting the demonic dan-pellet. Before she fell, she tasked me with passing this demonic dan-pellet to you in exchange for a 200,000 low grade spiritual stones remuneration.”

“Granny!” Jin Qiao’er was stunned before she started crying. After a brief while, she stopped crying but nodded at Wei Suo with an overcast expression.

“200,000 low grade spiritual stones, not a problem. But what is you current cultivation? And did my granny pass her Rushing Thunder Mallet to you?”

“Heavenly Circuit Stage level 3. The Rushing Thunder Mallet is with me.” Wei Suo discounted his level of cultivation as he gazed at Jin Qiao’er and asked, “What has that got to do with the 200,000 low grade spiritual stones?”